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LAURENCE HOOPER

Appointments

Assistant Professor of Italian ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​July 2014- ​Dartmouth College, N.H.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures ​2013-14 Wesleyan University, Conn.

Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Postdoctoral Research Fellow ​ ​2010-13 University of Chicago, Ill.

Devers Program in Studies Postdoctoral Fellow ​ ​ ​ 2009-10 Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Spring 2009 University of Notre Dame, Ind.

Education

Ph.D., Italian Studies, University of Cambridge, England ​ ​ ​ ​2009 Dissertation: “Questions of Exile in Dante and Pasolini”

M.Phil., with distinction: European Literature, University of Cambridge ​ ​2004 Thesis: “From the to the Commedia: The Continuities of Exile”

B.A., first-class honors: Italian and Spanish, University of Cambridge ​ ​2003

Publications

Book project Exile and Authorship in Dante (250 pages, in preparation).

Edited volume Brendan Hennessy, Laurence E. Hooper, and Charles L. Leavitt IV, eds. “Realisms and Idealisms in Italian Culture 1300-2017,” The Italianist 37.3 (2017). Introduction + 10 peer-reviewed articles; 188 pages, 250,000 words. ​https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yita20/37/3

Peer-Reviewed Articles 1. Brendan Hennessey, Laurence E. Hooper, and Charles Leavitt, Introduction, “Realisms and Idealisms in 1300-2017,” The Italianist 37.3 (2017): 281-88. 4,000 words. ,https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2017.1409308

2. “Characterization, and Eschatological Realism from Dante to Petrarch,” The Italianist 37.3 (Fall 2017): 289-307. 10,000 words. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2017.1407987

3. “Exile and Petrarch’s Reinvention of Authorship,” Renaissance Quarterly 69.4 (2016): 1217-56. 18,000 words. ​https://doi.org/10.1086/690312

4. “‘Riacquistare la Casarsa Buona’: Exile, Realism, and Authorship in Pasolini’s Atti impuri and Amado mio,” Italian Studies 68.1 (2013): 140-56. 10,000 words. ​https://doi.org/10.1179/0075163412Z.00000000037

5. “Dante’s , Book 1: Exile, Metaphor, Epochē,” in “De Theoria: Early Modern ​Essays in Honor of Eugene Vance,” ed. Stephen G. Nichols, Supplement, MLN ​127.5 (2012): 86-104. 8,500 words https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2012.0152

6. “‘Un estraneo in una terra ostile’: Exile and Engagement in Pasolini’s Verse Dramas,” Italica 89.3 (2012): 357-70. 6,500 words ​http://www.jstor.org/stable/23474928.

7. “Exile and Rhetorical Order in the Vita nova,” L’Alighieri n.s. 38 (2011): 5-27. doi 10.1400/179061. 14,000 words http://dx.medra.org/10.1400/179061

8. “Dialectal Dialectics: Translating Trilussa,” The Italianist 25 (2005): 280-306. 7,000 words + verse translations of 8 poems. ​https://doi.org/10.1179/026143405X77434

Book Chapters and Invited Contributions 1. “Characterization,” in The Cambridge Companion to Dante’s “Commedia,” ed. Zygmunt Barański and Simon Gilson (Cambridge: Cambridge UP), pp. 43-60. Forthcoming late 2018, 8,000 words.

2. “ 28: Within Sight of Home?” in Lectura Dantis: Paradiso, ed. Anthony Oldcorn (Berkeley: U of California P). Forthcoming 2018, 5,000 words/21 pages.

3. “Trilussa: A Case Study in the Translation of Dialect Poetry,” in Twentieth-Century Poetic Translation: Literary Cultures in Italian and English, ed. Daniela LaPenna and Daniela Caselli (London: Continuum, 2008), 99-112. 7,000 words.

Reviews and Interviews 1. Review of Tristan Kay, Dante’s Lyric Redemption: Eros, Salvation, Vernacular Tradition (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016), Renaissance Quarterly 70.3 (2017): 1205- 06. 800 words. ​https://doi.org/10.1086/695257

2. Review of Teodolinda Barolini, ed., Richard Lansing, trans., Dante's Lyric Poetry: Poems of Youth and of the “Vita Nuova” (1283-1292) (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2014), The Medieval Review 23, no. 8 (Aug. 2015): review 67. 2,500 words https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/19943/26026

3. Review of Brunetto Latini, Le Livre du Trésor, Livre 1, trans. Bernard Ribémont and Silvère Menegaldo (: Champion, 2013), Renaissance Quarterly 67.3 (2014): 932-33. 800 words. ​https://doi.org/10.1086/678779

4. Review of Maria Luisa Ardizzone, Dante: Il paradigma intellettuale. Un’“inventio” degli anni fiorentini (: Olschki, 2011), Forum Italicum 47.1 (2013): 215- 16. 1,000 words. https://doi.org/10.1177/0014585813478906

5. Interview with director, Yvonne McDevitt, Pirandello Studies 26 (2006): 63-65.

Translations 1. Tommaso Beggio, “Epigraphy,” in The Oxford Handbook for Roman Law and . Ed. Clifford Ando, Paul J. du Plessis and Kaius Tuori (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 43-55.

2. Paolo Grossi, A History of European Law (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010).

3. Primo Levi, Il Versificatore (excerpt), Journal of Italian Translation 2.2 (2007): 118- 139. Awards and Grants

Dartmouth Sabbatical and Junior Faculty Fellowship ​ ​ ​ 2018-19 (Three courses + $700).

Assoc. Dean’s discretionary funds for ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 2018 high-res images of medieval manuscripts ($1000.)

Funding totaling $19,800 for conference, “Realisms and Idealisms ​ ​ 2016-17 ​in Italy, 1300-2016.” ​Dept. of French and Italian, Leslie Center for the Humanities, ​Associate Deans’ offices, Dartmouth College Guthrie Fund: $2800 for presentations on Dante by Prof. Z. G. Barański ​ 2016- 17 ​Dept. of French and Italian, Dartmouth College

Burke Award for new Assistant Professors: $25,000 over 6 years ​ ​ 2015- 2021 ​Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dartmouth College

Research start-up funds: $3,500; computer allowance: $2,500 ​ ​ 2015-16 ​Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dartmouth College

McMahon Fund and Dean’s Fund: $1250 for conference travel ​ ​ 2013-14

​Wesleyan University.

Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Research Fellowship ​ ​ ​ 2010-13 Research funding: $4,000 p.a.; $2,000 one-time computer allowance ​University of Chicago and R. R. Donnelley Foundation

Devers Program in Dante Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship ​ ​ ​ 2009-10 Research funding: $1500. ​University of Notre Dame, Devers fund.

Master’s and PhD fellowships (4 years tuition and stipend) ​ ​ ​ 2003, 2004 UK Arts and Humanities Research Council

Manners Scholarship and Sykes and Stock Prize (for academic excellence) 2000, 2003 Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

EU Program Scholarship to attend La Sapienza University, Rome ​ 2001-02

Teaching and Mentoring

Dartmouth College ITAL21: Early ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Winter 2018

FRIT33/REL32.02: Dante’s “Divine” Comedy ​ ​ ​Spring 2016, ’17, ’18 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Fall 2014

Presidential Scholar: Joseph Waring studying characterization in ​ ​Winter- Spring Dante’s ​ ​ ​ ​ ​2017

ITAL07.05: Poetry for the Departed Beloved ​ ​ ​ ​Spring 2016 in Dante and Petrarch (First-year seminar) ​Paper by Wendy Kang’ethe awarded Dickerson Freshman ​Writing Prize. Introduction to Boccaccio’s Decameron ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Winter 2016 ​ ​Invited lecture

ITAL2 (2 sections) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Winter 2016

Presidential Scholars: Zachary Goldberg and John Ling ​ ​ ​Summer 2015- ​establishing Dartmouth Dante Image Bank ​ ​ ​Fall 2015

Wesleyan University From Exile into Paradise: Dante’s “Divine” Comedy ​ ​ ​ ​Spring 2014

Advanced Italian in Practice: Italian Disaster Narratives ​ ​ ​Spring 2014

The Courtier and the Courtesan in the Italian Renaissance ​ ​ ​Fall 2013

Intermediate Italian I (two sections) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Fall 2013

University of Chicago Exile and Authorship in the Medieval Romance Literatures ​ ​ ​Fall 2011

University of Notre Dame Pasolini’s Theater ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Spring 2012 ​Invited graduate seminar leader

A Passage to Italy ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Fall 2009, Spring 2010

Italian Theater Workshop: Love and Honor in Goldoni and Pirandello ​Spring 2010 Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdiTTv5oSSs

Dante’s Comedy ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Spring 2009

Pasolini: Intellettuale pubblico ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​Spring 2009

University of Cambridge Translation from Italian ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 2005-06, 2006-07

Rome in Italian Cinema of the 1960s; Dante and Pasolini ​ ​ ​ 2006- 07 ​Invited graduate seminar leader ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

Lectures and Presentations

Invited Lectures ​Wesleyan University: “Wes Thinks Big” series (May 2014) Lumen Christi Institute, University of Chicago (May 2013) ​Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uXG05uhVxk (500+ views)

Seminar Presentations ​Dartmouth College, Medieval/Renaissance seminar (Nov. 2018) ​Dartmouth College, Medieval/Renaissance seminar (May 2015) ​Dartmouth College, Researching Romance seminar (April 2015) University of Chicago, Medieval studies workshop (Mar. 2012) Assumption College, Mass, “Dante and the Poetry of Revelation” (Mar. 2012)

Conference Papers ​Medieval Academy of America (2015, 2011) ​Renaissance Society of America (2014) ​Modern Language Association (2014) ​American Association of Italian Studies (2013, 2011, 2007) ​International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich. (2012, 2011) ​Society for Italian Studies, St Andrews, Scotland (2011)

Service and Participation

Participated in meetings regarding reform of Italian curriculum (Winter/Spring 2018)

Attended workshop with Research Computing on use of GIS mapping software in ​teaching (Fall 2017).

Participated in longlisting for open-rank Italian search (Fall 2016).

Major/Minor advisor, Italian (2015-16).

Invited Prof. Zygmunt G. Barański (Cambridge, Notre Dame) to give public lecture on ​“Dante’s Florentine Education” and guest lecture at FRIT33 (April 20-21, 2016_

Co-organized conference, “Realisms and Idealisms in Italy, 1300-2016.” Dartmouth ​College, April 15-16, 2016.

Search committee member, Visiting Instructor of Italian, Department of French and ​Italian, Dartmouth College (Spring 2015).

Executive committee member of Dartmouth Dante Lab: a customizable digital workspace ​for studying Dante’s Comedy http://dantelab.dartmouth.edu/ (Fall 2014-).

Peer-reviewer: • Book MSs: Legenda (Winter 2015); University of Toronto Press (Fall 2014). • Journal articles: Dante Studies (Fall 2018, Winter 2015); Modern Language Review (Summer 2018); The Italianist (Summer 2014, declined).

Co-organized panel, “Authorship and Audience from Dante to Petrarch”: RSA 2014. ​Sponsor: Italian Literature, RSA discipline group

Co-organized panels “Dante and the Law of Nature”; “Order and Nature in Dante.” ​Kalamazoo ICMS 2013. Sponsor, Dante Society of America

Co-directed Dante Now! Public readings from the Commedia by ​students on the Notre Dame Campus (Fall 2012).

Co-organized panel, “Realism in Italy 1945-75,” AAIS 2011.

Laurence Hooper CV, page 1 [email protected]; dartmouth.academia.edu/LaurenceHooper; 574-485-6670 (cell)